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JACOB NOLLNER, OF \Y.'\S-III.\`G'I'O.\S. DISTINCT OI' COLUMBIA.

APPARATUS FOR AT'I'AIImlG A HIGH DEGREE OF VELOCITY ON RAILROADS, 6:0.

Specification of Letters Potent No, G90, dnt'ed Api-u 13. 183%;

T0 all u-zom, it m n.1/ concern Ile it known that I, Jacon Nonnsrn, of the city of 'nahington, in the Diitrict of Columbia, have invented a new and ini- )roved mode of combining certain wellnown kinds of apparatus or machinery so as to attain u very high degree of velocity, and which combined machinery may be applied to the nrpose of transportation upon railroads and) to other objects Where ity may be desirable to attain a high degree of speed upon the. principle or in the manner devised by me; and I do herebdeclare, that, the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The principle upon which I proceed is the same with that which obtains when vehicles of any kind are made to have a progressive motion upon the surface of the earth. A carriage or a floating veael placed upon any part. of that surface, and relatively at rest, all the articles` or persons, stationed thereon, will be at relative rest; if the vcsel or earria ,e be inode to move in any direction, by

a orco applied to it alone, such force, if-

sumcient to overcome its friction and inertie` will have absolute motion communicated to it, and that in n degree roportioned to tho nature of such force; and wlll, in a short space of time, cause whatever. articles are. placed upon` it from their inertia, to move with it in n right line, if the power of the first, mover be, equahle. Let. us suppose m0- tion to be communicated to a car, platform, or other article mounted upon wlieols, from an independent source, both the car and motive power being placed upon another platform, veseel, or other article, and let. the motion eomnuuiicated to the second ear or other article, be e ual in velocity to, and in the direction of tint, communicated to the first ear, platform` or vcs. el upon which itmovcs, and the absolute motion. on the cnrthx Surface, will be thereby doubled.

If, for the purpose of illustration, we sup; pose n movable railroad of sntlicient length to be constructed, and to run upon an ordinary, permanent, fixed railroad perfectly level or otherwise; and w'e also sup vose a train of ears, with wheels. placed twreon capable of a separate and independent Inotion, and adapte-it to the rails fixed on the top of the movable road: that the movable road be one mile. in length and could be drawn upon the permanent road by a locomotive engine, or moved by any other adequate power; and further suppose, that u train of canbe placed, as above stated. upon the movable railroad, and he drawn forward thereon. upon a Stationary railroad, bv a locomotive giving! to the train the same relative velocity willi the movable railroad, is i't not manifest; that its own relative velocity will be doubled; or it will pass over the same. space, on the permanent railroad, in'one half of the time, that the movable railroad would. TA further illustration: Let, a movable railroad be placed upon a permanent railway; then let. a train of cars be placed upon the top of the movable railroad, and let it be supposed that. the veloeitv given to the movable railroad, by a locoino'tivq'to be equal to twenty miles an hour; the train of cars placed thereon, when at. rest, must'l needs go at the same velocity; suppow further, that while the movable road is in motion, the train of cara be also put in motion, b v a separato locomotive attached to it, at the same rate of twenty miles hour: then, is it not umlenialdc, l ".t the train will go at the. velocit-v of for. milt-:1' an hour--beiiig carried twenty utiles an hour bv the mov# able road, and twenty miles an hour by its own locomotive; or in otl` r words, the train will travel twenty mile: in thirty minutes; that is. it will zo over the same space, in one half of the time; and so, of any number of mounted railroads snperincnmbent upon each other, and so constructed as to operate uponA the principle above laid down.

The better to exemplify this principle, I refer to the annexed drawing, v :hieh repre- Sents a permanent railroad, having upon it four movable railroads running on wheels, placed one above, the other, and also a ca rriage or car on the top of the whole, each of the movable railroao's being of a proportionate length to that which Istands immediately above it.

A, A, Figrs. 1 and 2, is the permanent. railroad, and Il, C, D, and E, the respectivo movable railroads, and F, a car forming the topmost and last of the series, B, being placed directly on the permanent', road, and the others, one surmountingr the other, as represented. If tho movable railways be placed as in the drawing, so that, one end of each be at the point Al, of the permanent road, and the movable railway I he made to travel toward A2, by the application of anyn'iotive power, sav at twent)` miles an hour; and each of the surmountcd railways,

and the` car, hr mrnlc tu travel inflrpcmlontly, l by a scparattznulivc furcc applictl to iteclf. f :intl giving it tlu.` sani(` vclncity, C, will thcrcln' bc cunsctl to travel t'rt I), sixty; E, eighty; and F, one hnndrrd miles, in the same pcriml 0f time.

I lmvv prosentwt, for illntration, the com struction of a ztationary railway and of, lnonntctl railways. Such as l :un awar'.` it may appvar to sume ptrSm, imprartiralilc to mala` :unl use; but I havLl thm` shown it, principally, for thv pnrpfvsc of cxcmplitiration; I am of c iinzon, lm\vcvcr,' that the principle, of attaining: n high vrlnrity, as herein dvsrrihitl, ma) bc so motlitivd as to be applied atlvan'tagumlsly to tlm purposes of locomotive; and also, that it may be found to hc applirallle= in a greater or leiser extent, to the various purposes in the nmchinery employed in various useful arts;

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mul it is my object to sccnrc t0 mivs'clf the right nf applying it', in any \\'a v, m which it may la' a'lvantagcmisly ust-tl.

'l'hc plaring of two n mure movable railways. pla'tfurlns. vr :trlilc capaliltr nf progrt-:sivv mntiun7 one :ihm-c the other, S0 that pun-cr appliml tu it, anl; liktl itsllf snstainctl npzm tht` railroad, platform. ninnntvtl railway, nr other arlirlt, upon whit-hit is to mm'c; ami thi; l claim: whatever forni or ariangrmf-nt the anni* may lie marit` to :iS- snnic, n'hilt tlm principle of artifgn is the same with that herein c vmnpliliml.

JACOB XOLLXEP.

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